High Wall Page #2

Tell me about it then.

I have to have

some protection.

All of them steal all the time.

There isn't an honest person-

Nice quiet morning, Delaney.

Hello, Doctor.

Where's this new patient

- Steven Kenet?

He's in 3. Better watch

this fella, Doctor.

He wouldn't even

let us shave him.

He's real antisocial.

Good morning, Mr. Kenet.

I'm Dr. lorrison.

You may go,

Delaney.

Uh, Doctor, I-

wait outside,

please.

You're going to be one

of my patients, Mr. Kenet.

Would you care to tell me

anything about yourself?

Tell me about

those headaches.

Are you feeling

better this morning?

Get out.

Mr. Kenet, we're very

fortunate to have a neurosurgeon

like Dr. Griffin

with us.

He's diagnosed your

case and feels certain

he can remove the

cause of your headaches.

He can.

Yes. Now, if you'll

just sign here,

giving us

your consent.

Surgery, huh?

I've been

through that before.

You can see

what it got me.

Now get out of here

and leave me alone!

Cut up

some other Guinea pig!

Mr. Kenet, if you have any pain,

just tell the orderly,

and he'll call me.

Of course he refused

the operation.

He'll continue

to refuse.

You don't have to be a psychiatrist

to know the game Kenet's playing:

Sit the law out,

stall for time,

then come to court

and get an acquittal

on a plea

of temporary insanity.

Well, that may be true, Mr. Wallace,

but the court sent him

here for observation,

and we're proceeding along those lines.

Look, Doctor, the mother of a

6-year-old child has been strangled.

The million people in this county demand

that our office bring Kenet to trial.

Oh, I recognize your responsibility,

but please don't

overlook ours.

You've had him 6 days.

It may take

6 months.

For what?

I don't want Kenet

psychoanalyzed.

I just want him

cleared for trial.

He's sane.

I'm talking

about legal sanity.

That's all the district

attorney's office is interested in.

We don't care anything

about neurosis, psychosis,

or arterial thrombosis.

Did he know the difference

between right and wrong

when he killed her?

That's the only question.

And did he, Mr. Wallace?

Well, of course he did.

Examine his background.

He was a bomber pilot.

He married

during the war.

Head injury in combat, operation

performed in an army hospital,

successfully.

When he came home,

he was restless.

He had to keep moving.

After the war, he went

to Burma, flying freight.

He left his old mother

and his wife and his child here.

Mrs. Kenet got a secretarial job.

I suppose she had to.

What point

are you making?

A month ago in Burma,

he was in a slight crackup.

In a company hospital, they

gave him a complete check-up.

That's a cable from

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